Experience Makes All the Difference   When is it Time to Hire an In-Home Caregiver? When your loved one shows signs of needing assistance, you may want to “go it alone” and bear the responsibilities without outside help. At first, it may seem doable to take on...

Preparing for Long-Term Care Costs: What to Know Long-term care costs continue to rise, but few Americans are prepared to pay for them. Unfortunately, that means that many Americans face poverty in retirement. Even for those who don’t want to live in a nursing home,...

Introduction A novel and considerate method of providing home health care is live-in caregiving. It entails a carer providing round-the-clock support while residing in the patient's home. People with age-related problems, disabilities, or chronic illnesses benefit...

Do's and Don'ts of caring for a loved one with Dementia Dementia is a chronic illness that not only degrades the quality of life of the sufferer but also makes the patient extremely dependent. Dealing with someone suffering from Dementia means that even when you have...

Lewy Body Dementia Dementia with Lewy Bodies is the second most common form of dementia in the US, affecting 1.4 million Americans in the last twenty years. It’s a neurodegenerative disease characterized by clumps of a-synuclein protein that form and increase over...